Crazy, Busy, Happy: It's a BOY!

Welcome To The World!

Benton Jerome Holicky

8lbs 2oz

20inches

It's a BOY! Baby Benton joined our family last Friday, June 20, 2014 at 5:48am! He was welcomed into this world SUPER, SSUPPPEERRRR fast! Here is his story:

I can honestly say that I felt way too good last week to think that I was going to be having a baby. We kept busy all week with Kynzley in bible school, splashing around at the aquatic center, I walked River Side park and kept up with daily household things. The weather Thursday was dreary and rainy which I thought explained why I was so tired! I guess it was my body getting ready for an exciting night/morning :) Thursday night we attended a bible school wrap up where all the kids did a performance and then we had dinner. I think I jinxed myself by telling everyone who asked if I was ready that I was not! I felt too good and could go at least another week (or a couple days). That night was typical - put Kynzley to bed, relaxed on the couch for a bit and headed to bed.

I got up around 3am to use the bathroom, nothing out of the ordinary and crawled back in to bed. After laying there for a moment I felt what could have possibly been my water breaking. Not a gush, (like the doctor told me to look for) so I got back up to use the bathroom and found that all signs showed that labor was going to begin. I woke Francis up (but turning a light on right in his face!) and explained that I think my water just broke. His reply "no it didn't, you probably just had an accident" and proceeded to try and go back to bed. Thank you husband! I called my mom to warn her that I think my water had broke and prepare to take Kynzley. I then called the hospital to explain what was going on. The nurse told me to lay back down for 30 min and if when I stood back up fluid continues to leak then it was my water breaking and to give them a call back with an update. Easy enough! After crawling back into bed I grabbed Francis and said contractions are starting! So we laid there to see where things were going to go. We didn't lay there long!!!! Francis started timing them on his phone and they ended up being two minutes apart lasting for a minute - yup time to leave!!!!! I called the hospital back and as soon as I said contractions started the nurse demanded "you need to get here"! We grabbed our bags and Kynzley and headed out the door! After dropping Kynzley off at Nana's house we headed for the hospital. My contractions were still steady but at this point I was able to handle them, which I guess gave Francis the go ahead to joke around. As we drove past Perkins he politely asked if I wanted to stop for breakfast - hmmm, hey bud how about you just sit in silence the rest of the way!!!

We arrived at the hospital at about 5:15ish(am) and because of the construction it seemed like an eternity for someone from labor and delivery to reach me in the emergency room. Finally! A nurse arrived and we headed to our destination. On our way I asked the nurse to stop so I could have a contraction and she graciously did so, we then continued. We didn't get very far - maybe 30 steps when I asked her to stop again. She asked if I was feeling pressure with these contractions and I said "yes!" and her response was "I cannot stop anymore because we are not having a baby in the hallway!" and we rushed faster to our location. We arrived to our room and they quickly gowned me and pretty much threw me in bed (at this point I had no real break between contractions). Things went so fast they had no time to do any typical procedures. Our nurse wasn't even on shift yet. After pulling a doctor from another room (sorry to that lady!) my room was full of staff and it was go time. Two pushes and a screaming baby later we had a BOY and one with a full head of hair! Things were so quick, we were in the room less than 30mins and everything as all said and done! We keep saying to ourselves its a good thing we left the house when we did or we are pretty sure we would have had a road side baby.

Our first week has been great! Kynzley is a GREAT big sister and super proud of her baby brother! She's always telling him how cute he is and she calls him her 'big fellow' :) He's had a busy first week of life as well - been to a couple ball games, walks to the park, played at the childrens museum and has had some visitors. Daddy went back to work today, so it's this mommy's goal to get a routine going!!! Wish me luck ;)

I also want to take time to thank EVERYONE for your kind words and prayers through this whole pregnancy!!!!!! We have had a great support system! It started off rough in the beginning but I could have not asked for a better ending. We had NO (NONE, Nadda, zip!!!!) complications after birth this round and it felt great to be able to bond right away with Benton! THANK YOU!!!!!